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...DIED. MARY WESLEY, 90, acclaimed English novelist who wrote portraits of upper-middle-class British life during and before World War II; in Totnes, England. Born Mary Aline Mynors Farmar, Wesley was 72 years old when she scored commercial success with her second novel, The Camomile Lawn, which was made into a television show. "Sixty should be the time to start something new," she said, "not put your feet up." In her last two decades, Wesley wrote 10 novels, three children's books and a memoir of her life in Devon...
...sudden economic revival would mend what amounts to bad luck (the recession) teamed with years of poor planning and an ancient state-tax system that largely ignores the fastest growing part of the economy: services. You don't pay tax to have a tooth pulled, your taxes done, your lawn mowed or a lawsuit filed. That may have to change. Goods bought over the Internet are often tax free, and that too might have to change...
Vigor was the byword of the Kennedy years. After the wrinkled decorum of Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy's America would feature people like him, the kind whose hair waved in the wind as they scrimmaged on the lawn at Hyannis Port, Mass. But for more than a decade now, as biographers have burrowed under the New Frontier, another J.F.K. has come into the picture. That would be the one with a multitude of serious illnesses whose life was a hidden ordeal of pills and injections, the one whose severe chronic back pain led him eventually to find...
...Blue House, I walked with Kim to the lawn to have some pictures of him taken beside a bed of red and white roses. The four presidential dogs were barking from their pen in a corner of the lawn. Kim settled into a chair, relaxed and asked after my wife. He could have been any Korean grandfather entertaining a younger visitor. He told me he was planning to become "an ordinary citizen" after he left the presidency. As the sun dipped behind the green-blue ceramic eaves of the Korean-style residence, to become a regular Korean seemed the best...
...president of the World Aquaculture Society, points out, however, that wild salmon are bigger eaters than that--consuming at least 10 lbs. of fish to add 1 lb. in weight--and argues that harvesting large amounts of short-lived species like menhaden is no more harmful than mowing the lawn. "Fish-meal fish are nature's forage," he says. "Cropping them merely increases their productivity...